Category Archives: math

Summary: The species package now has support for bracelets, i.e. equivalence classes of lists up to rotation and reversal. I show some examples of their use and then explain the (very interesting!) mathematics behind their implementation. I recently released a … Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago, Denise posted Puzzle: Crystal Ball Connection Patterns on her blog, Let’s Play Math. I had fun playing with it and thought I would demonstrate how to apply some high-powered combinatorial techniques to it (probably not what … Continue reading →

Summary: given an injective function , it is possible to constructively “divide by ” to obtain an injection , as shown recently by Peter Doyle and Cecil Qiu and expounded by Richard Schwartz. Their algorithm is nontrivial to come up … Continue reading →

I’ve now finished revising the paper that Dan Piponi and I had accepted to MPC 2015; you can find a PDF here: Polynomial Functors Constrained by Regular Expressions Here’s the 2-minute version: certain operations or restrictions on functors can be … Continue reading →

tl;dr: Read a draft of my thesis and send me your feedback by September 9! Over the past year I’ve had several people say things along the lines of, “let me know if you want me to read through your … Continue reading →

This is part four in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice (part one, part two, part three). In my previous post, we considered the “Axiom of Protoequivalence”—that is, the statement that every fully faithful, essentially surjective … Continue reading →

This is part three in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice (part one, part two). In my previous post, I explained one place where the axiom of choice often shows up in category theory, namely, when … Continue reading →